muskit

"One of the boys happened ter drop his muskit on the old gentleman's corns, an 'I was apologisin' fer his carelessness."

Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883

You better b'leeve dat w'en Mr. Dog got a chance to make hisse'f skase he tuck it, en w'at der wuz lef 'un him went skaddlin' thoo de woods like hit wuz shot outen a muskit.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

You better b'leeve dat w'en Mr. Dog got a chance to make hisse'f skase he tuck it, en w'at der wuz lef 'un him went skaddlin' thoo de woods like hit wuz shot outen a muskit.

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Bob threw down his muskit an 'ran off the ground howlin', so I picked the wipon up an 'blazed away at the inimy; but, bad luck to him, Bob had left his ramrod in, and I sint it right through the flank of an owld donkey as was pullin' an apple and orange cart.

Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land 1859

I got into that state of warlike feeling that I loaded me muskit five times widout firin ', an' there was such a row round about that I didn't know the dirty thing had niver wint off till the fifth time, when she bursted into smithereens an 'wint off intirely.

Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land 1859

-- H.W. [6] i hait the Site of a feller with a muskit as I du pizn But their

The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855

I gotter muskit out dar wa't's used ter persidin '' roun 'whar dey's a cripple nigger.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

I gotter muskit out dar w'at's used ter persidin '' roun 'whar dey's a cripple nigger.

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878

So I des sorter riz up an 'retch fer my ole muskit, and den I crope out er de back do', an 'w'atter you reckin I seed? "

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

So I des sorter riz up an 'retch fer my ole muskit, and den I crope out er de back do', an 'w'atter you reckin I seed? "

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878